The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-10-20
ON TO BALTIMORE.
A NORTH CAROLINIAN GOES TO
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY.
Incidents of the Trip: A Merry Party
on the Boat Sing Old ssCarolina'' and
Speed the Hours With Good OLD
Songs--PeFsonal Points of Interest.
Special Correspondence Of The Sentinel.
JOINS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BAL
TIMoRE, Nd, Oct. 18.-It is very in.
teresting, as well as instructive, to
study the variety in soil, products and
modes of habitation one sees in pass
ing through any considerable extent
of territory. This variety can be seen
and eni&>7ed, in small way, as one
goes from Raleigh to Portsmouth by
the r. & q. and Seaboard and Roam
oke Railroads. After leaving Raleigh,
you strike the slightly undulating
counties of Wake, Franklin and
Vance, with their fields of tobacco and
cotton, and their new homes and thrift.
ty tobacco towns, After leaving We'll
don and crossing the Roanoke river,
you get into the fat lands of the East
with its sluggish streams and cypress
and pines and hanging rnoss and dark
soil. This is the home of the festive
mosquito and is where the lurking
malaria holds high carnival.
ACROSS THE BORDER.
After you cross the Virginia border,
the entire country seems to be given
over-excepting Suffolk and the Sea
port towns-to peanut and cane farms,
with patches of cotton and corn here
and there, and old buildings with dor
mer windows, and rank weeds and
grass growing almost everywhere. The
few small hamlets along the route seem
to consist largely of a grocery and
bar-room as nucleus, around which
are gathered few ragged houses, a
great many of which are filled by still
more ragged negroes. But this view
one gets from the train is doubtless
superficial. Of course there are pros
ps1ous planters and truckers in the
interior who are making money and
who iye in elegance and comfort. The
land certainly looks rich enough to
produce we'll. 1t is doubtless the shift
less and thriftless class of negroes WHO
are attracted to the railroad by what
little employment it has to offer, ana
the equally thriftless white man goes
there and opens grocery to catch the
floating pennies This state of affairs
unfortunately prevails more or less in
great many other parts of the coun-
try.
PoRTsAoUTH AND NORFOLK.
AS you approach Norfolk and Ports
mouth, it will become plain that the
| trucking interest is better managed
and doubtless yields greater profits. 1t
is quickened by the nearness Of good
shipping points. Portsmouth looks
somewhat dilapidated in some portions
and is not keeping abreast With ita
sister city, Norfolk. AS the train
glides through the city down to the
wharf, the NEST noticeable objects Of
interest are the shell roads, the Cath
olic Church, and the monument erect.
ed to the Confederate dead. When
you alight from the train, you have to
take only few steps to the ferry
boat which takes you across the Eliz
abeth river to Norfolk. When you
land at Norfolk, about the first thing
that you notice (and especially if you
are a TarheeD is large picture o
Blackwell's Durham Bull painted or
the side of large brick building! i
is said that picture of this classic an
imal also adorns the huge rock of Gi.
braltar. Verify, verify, old Rip is al
laet awake. Merry near the Norfolk
wharf, you will find the market, wher'
almost every conceivable variety o
vegetables and meats are to be foune
in great abundance. Norfolk is full
of stir and lite.- It is now regarded a
the third cotton market in the Unitet
States. 1 had the pleasure of meeting
several old acquaintance and friend
in the twin-city by the sea.
Personal.
At Portsmouth I had cordi.
hand-shake and few moments pleas
ant chat with Capt. Young, Principa
of one Of the city schools, and VIII
was at one time Professor Of Law a
Trinity College, where he and hi
family have spent the vacation thi
summer. At Norfolk I met Mr.. WI
ley Rountree, formerly Of Wilson
who is in the cotton commission busi
ness, and who is always glad to gree
! North CaroEnians. Mr.. Latham, q
Pitt county, is also with Mr.. Rountre
in the cotton business. Mr.. Turne
Battle, Jr., of Rocky Mount. q stu
dent at the University about 1880,
another cotton merchant. In fac
Norfolk is full of North Carolinian
who have not forgotten for a momer
the Old North State and who alway
: have cordial welcome to give I
. their friends.
UP THE oHBsAPEAKE
, Whose pulse does not throb mol
"a pi1ly when he thinks of bost rid
: up the Chesapeake by moonlight
E and especially if it be one of these d.
: lightfully crisp nights in early Oct
9 ber? But your correspondent ":
Q specially favored. On the same bo,
he found party of North Carolinial
bright and talented and ambitio,
who were on their way to Baltimol
and New York to make themselv,
more proficient in special lines
+ study. Misses Lillian and Mary A
G mold, of G. F. College, Miss Alice E
b urn, of Wayne, Miss Lula Hester,
a Henderson, and Miss Maggie McIve
: of Moore, were on their way to Ne
v York to study music, elocution al
y art. Anthese young ladies have ",
y distinction at Greensboro Female OK
g lege, and are now preparing thel
selves for still greater usefulness al